The design and performance of the Berkeley Continuous Media Toolkit (CMT) is described. CMT provides a programming environment for rapid development of continuous media applications. CMT overhead is measured in the context of a simple video playback application and is found to be only a few milliseconds per frame played. As a demonstration of CMT as a research infrastructure, an experiment comp...

Longevity of distributed computing middleware standards, such as CORBA, depend on their ability to support a range of applications by providing low overhead access in a uniform manner to a large variety of platforms and network capabilities. OMG’s recent adaptation of Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) mapping is another instance of this trend. Applications can obtain all the benefits ...

The mobile wireless environment can be challenging for multimedia applications, with poor performance and handover issues causing service degradation. In this paper, a modified version of the new IETF transport protocol, SCTP, is shown to improve the performance of a voice-like application in an environment where two wireless LAN’s overlap. It does this by monitoring both networks and selecting...

Dynamic address configuration is essential when maintaining seamless communication sessions in heterogeneous mobile environments. This paper identifies some significant problems when using the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Dynamic Address Reconfiguration (SCTPDAR) extension. We illustrate that SCTP-DAR can enter a deadlock state during the handover phase, ultimately resulting in c...

While congenital muscular torticollis (CMT) can occur along with other conditions, such as clavicle fracture or brachial plexus injury, these conditions exist outside the sternocleidomastoid muscle (SCM). We present a rare case with concurrence of CMT and a malignant tumor inside the same SCM, along with serial clinical and radiological findings of the atypical features of CMT. The malignant tu...

Aim: This study was conducted to evaluate the concentrations of sodium (Na+) and potassium (K+) ions in milk of lactating dairy cows with and without subclinical mastitis as putative indicators for detecting subclinical mastitis in dairy cows. Materials and Methods: Thirty seven lactating dairy cows were screened for the evidence of subclinical mastitis using California mastitis test (CMT). The...

This document summarises an evaluation of two software release tools CMT and SCRAM which have been identified by the “Software Process RTAG” as possible candidates for a common tool supported by LCG. The evaluation of SCRAM has been carried out by a CMT expert, while CMT has been evaluated by a SCRAM expert. The main goal of the evaluation was to compare and contrast the tools behaviour in a re...

Mutations in neurofilament light (NFL) subunit and small heat-shock protein B1 (HSPB1) cause autosomal-dominant axonal Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2E (CMT2E) and type 2F (CMT2F). Previous studies have shown that CMT mutations in NFL and HSPB1 disrupt NF assembly and cause aggregation of NFL protein. In this study, we investigate the role of aggregation of NFL protein in the neurotoxicity o...

BACKGROUND Mastitis is the most important and costly disease in dairy goat production. Subclinical mastitis is common in goats and is mainly caused by contagious bacteria. Several methods to diagnose subclinical mastitis are available. In this study indirect measurement of somatic cell count (SCC) by California Mastitis Test (CMT) and direct measurement of SCC using a portable deLaval cell coun...

Four subclinical mastitis diagnostic tests (the UdderCheck® test [a lactate dehydrogenasebased test], the California Mastitis Test [CMT], the Draminski® test [a conductivity-based test] and the PortaSCC® test [a portable somatic cell count-based test]) were compared in a study comprising crossbreed dairy cows (n = 30) during September and October 2015. Sensitivity and specificity of the CMT, Dr...